DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Staples Canada, you will be instrumental in automating builds, managing deployments, and overseeing monitoring and alerting for all Enterprise IT applications and systems. The DevOps and SRE team is responsible for defining and implementing best practices and blueprints that will be adopted by various Engineering groups across IT. This role serves as a key resource for these engineering teams, providing expert guidance on DevOps and SRE best practices.

A critical aspect of this position involves adeptly navigating both legacy and modern processes, as well as working across both on-premise and cloud technologies to ensure seamless operations and innovation.

Specifically, You Will

• Develop and maintain high quality CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide comprehensive DevOps support for all engineering groups across Staples Canada and Staples Professional.
• Implement configuration and secret management best practices for required builds.
• Monitor and maintain healthy Kubernetes environments in high availability scenarios.
• Continuously improve automation for builds, releases, and monitoring.
• Implement and enforce robust security best practices across infrastructure, deployments, and runtime environments.
• Enhance system visibility and reliability through effective logging and observability solutions.

Some Of What You Need

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science or equivalent working experience in software development.
• 5+ years of DevOps Engineering related experience.
• 2+ years with APM tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes administration experience with both Linux and Windows containers.
• 2+ years of working with a public cloud (Microsoft Azure preferred, but AWS or GCP are acceptable).
• 3-5 years of software development life cycle experience.
• Effective process and procedure documentation management.
• 2 years’ experience in IT development and operations is required, with retail sector experience preferred, though equivalent experience in other sectors within a software development context will also be considered.
• Microsoft Azure certification in either Solution Architecture or DevOps.
• Experience with build and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with web server administration (IIS, NGINX, Tomcat).
• Experience with Azure DevOps or Jenkins build automation systems.
• Familiarity with software and infrastructure monitoring tools.

Some Of What You Will Get

Staples Canada offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our associates, including:

• Associate discount.
• Health and Dental benefits.
• RRSP/DPSP.
• Performance bonuses.
• Learning & Development programs.
• And more...

Key skills/competency

• CI/CD Pipelines
• DevOps Support
• Kubernetes Administration
• Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Automation
• Security Best Practices
• Logging & Observability
• APM Tools (DataDog, Grafana)
• Terraform & Ansible
• Software Development Life Cycle